ABC13 is tracking crime and safety across Houston and in your neighborhood.
You can choose which crime to explore:
Homicides
Last 12 months
Through September 26
Average Homicides
Yearly average
2019 to 2021
Homicide Rate
Per 100,000 people
Last 12 months
Average Homicide Rate
Per 100,000 people
2019 to 2021
Homicides over the last 12 months are trending
However, the murder rate over the last 12 months is
The city averaged
One way to think about the danger: three years ago, the murder rate was
During the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in Houston rose above the likelihood of dying in a vehicle crash.
The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.
ABC13’s data team looked at the Houston Police Department’s data by neighborhood from 2019 through September 26.
The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. Darker blue areas are neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.
You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates. You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to that location.